Revolutionary Activity Quotes
In 1937 four nationalist army columns were converging on Madrid in the Spanish Civil War. General Mola was asked which column would take Madrid. His reference to the sympathizers inside the city became a universal term for traitors.
This commission was the intellectual forerunner of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and McCarthyism. Metternich called a conference of the heads of all the German states to deal with what they perceived as a dangerous liberalism enveloping German society. Metternich did not personally draft all the resolutions but he controlled the conclave and all the resolutions which are usually ascribed to him.
The sedition to which Senator Davis objected was proposal of Senator John P. Hale's proposal to outlaw pro-slavery mobs in the District of Columbia who attacked abolitionists and their newspapers.
In South Carolina, the Patriots, in reaction to the Tea Tax, did not destroy the tea, but stopped it from being landed and sold. Finally Lt. Governor Bull had the tea moved into the Customs house in Charleston. The patriots were satisfied that it was under lock and key and could not be sold or distributed and the tea tax was thus not collected. The British Secretary of State for America, however did not regard the compromise favorably.
He was of course not the President then. But the stands that politicians took with respect to the rebellion of the South often determined their political futures. See {640751} for another future President’s quotation on the subject.
After the Dutch Revolution there was a small, but passionate minority who did not want a strong national government. They wanted local republics. See {639847} for more on this point.
